Matthew Lillard in Animal Room, 1995

adonis, tr. by khaled mattawa

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.

— Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

Being. Since the word is inaccurate, it is crossed out. Since it is necessary, it is left legible.

Martin Heidegger, in a letter to Ernst Junger, 1956

Beloved distant blue
One day I'll die for you
And swim in sweet serenity
'Cause death is not my enemy

Willy Ronis, Marseille, 1963

Note to self :

Don't wait to get fired. Choose to quit👊🏻